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Rating  - Solid design reference book for any designer.
This book covers the basics of graphic design and is great for a beginner. It's also worthwhile for any intermediate or advanced designer to have in their collection for review. It's a small book so it's easy to carry around and not daunting to read.
Rating  - Excellent for beginners
My review title isn't a slight on the book as I do not mean it's excellent only for beginners. Since I'm a beginner (never took an art or design class since high school), I can only judge how good it is for beginners . The bottom line for me is, my graphic designs have definitely showed more creativity, more flow and overall shows more thought and planning. My previous "designing" used to involve just moving objects around and see if I like it - more hit or miss than anything else. I would still consider myself a beginner, but this book has definitely improved my design abilities - and I'm only 2/3 of the way through the book!
What I like about the book is the language is easy to understand and the author doesn't get caught up in technical terms. Having said that, he doesn't speak in just generalities. There are definitely specific things he writes about like the Golden Section and specific effects that someone like me can immediately use. On the other hand, this is also not a step-by-step book and I like that he encourages experimentation but it's very guided and structured. This brings me to another thing I like about the book: Exercises. In many sections, he gives exercises you can do on your own so you can see for yourself what he is talking about - he's guiding you to teach yourself. It's almost a self-guided art class and I've found the exercises to be really useful and creativity-inducing.
I can see myself referring back to this book often.
Rating - Good Reference and information for anyone
There is always those days in which you get stuck, this book is great to help you out or even to just help you see things from a different perspective. It is very informative and it covers all the basics in 359 pages. The design itself of the book is a pleasure to hold and browse, you almost feel like you just want to carry it around for just in case. It comes with exercises which are helpful mostly if you're a bigginer and it also has a lot of tips and ideas that come hand just about any time. Overall i think this book is great and if you're considering graphic design as a career path this book will surely help you define if you really love design or not.
Rating - Helpful
This book really shows you the guidelines of design... not rules but boundaries, emphasizing what most designers lean toward .. and tend to stay away from.
Great book.
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